Thoughts on Sci-Hub | Green Tea and Velociraptors

" ... So Sci-Hub has been hitting the mainstream news recently, and for very good reason. In short, it’s a website that uses university logins to crack paywalls around academic articles, which it then archives via LibGen. The latest statistics show that it currently has over 48 million research articles archived, and receives over 200,000 individual downloads per day from nearly 70,000 users! This is massive scale disruption of the current scholarly communication system, which is built around publishers and the journals they own. But what are the implications of this? What sort of things can we interpret from such massive scale breaching of the traditional routes of knowledge access? ..."